Machine for making wire reels



July 15 1924.

J. A. HOLMQUIST MACHINE FOR MAKING WIRE REELS Filed Dec- 30 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVEN 70R Jul 15. 1924. 1.501343 J. A. HOLMQUIST MACHINE FOR MAKING WIRE HEELS Filed Dec. 30, 1922 [Sheets-Sheet 2 WITNESSES atente'duly 15, 1924.

' To all whom it may concern:

1,501,343 'FFICE.

JOHN A. EOLMQUIST, OF WOODLAWN, PENNSYLVANIA macmnn ron MAKING WIRE nnnns. Application filed December 30, 1922; Serial 110109342.

sion device is found in a pair of rolls 7 Be it known that LJQHN A. HOLMQUIST, mounted in housings, as indicated at 2 and residing atWoodlawn, in the county'of Bcaforming between them a roll pass, and in ver andState of Pennsylvania, a citizen of guide rollers 5 and 6. The arrangement is the United States, have invented or disco-vclearly shown in Fig. II, where the advanc ered certain new and useful Improvements -ing wire is shown at W and. the direction of in Machines for Making Wire Reels, of advance is indicated by an arrow.

which improvements the following is a specification.

Patent of the'United States No.

shaping block 1, 4, and at its outer end. It In Letters consists of a blade 8 embedded in the block 1,375,844, granted me April 26, 1921, I have and a relatively movable blade, to which described and claimed a reel for Wire, the numeral 3 is immediately applied borne formed itself of wire. I shall in this appliby a beam 9 which is-pivoted upon the outcation describe and claim machinery by, or end of the block. This'beam is, by .means which the reel of the said Letters Patent of the cam drive shown, and including cammay be produced in such quantity produowheel 10, lever 11, and push-rod 12, caused tion as conditions of wire production reto swing and to elfect'one cut of the shears quire, with each complete rotation of the block.

In the accompanying drawings Fig, I is a. Operation will readily be understood. A view partly in plan andpartly in horizontal fed-in length of wire is temporarily secured section of themachine unit in which the to the columnar block and the block is put wire used in forming the reel is shaped prein rotation. The wire is laid under tension liminarily into loops and cut into looped around the block at its base or inner end. units; Fig. II is a view in end elevation of Being laid on under tension, permanent this same machine unit. Fig. III is aview shape is imposed upon it. The successive in elevation of the initially formed loop 01' turns of wire, accumulating, force the alreel unit; Figs. IV and V show the reel. ready wrapped turns from the base outward, units after shaping; and Fig. VI shows in until the whole face of the block is covered perspective the completed reel. with successive turns. Then with each rev- Referring, first, to Figs. I and II of the olution the-shears cut free one loop and the drawings, the machine unit there shown confreed loop is automatically delivered from sists essentially of a rotatable block 1, a tenthe outer end of the block. It will be persion device 2, and a shear 3. A ceived that by virtue of the arrangement The block 1 is of columnar form, so'parshown and described, and particularly by ticularly shaped that it imposes on the Wire virtue of the fact that the beam 9 is pivoted wrapped under tension upon it, the desired upon the block 1, and-that the push-rod 12 looped or elongate hoop form; that is to say extends axially through block 1, the loops this columnar block in cross section is of the as they are formed pass freely from the end shape and size 'to which the wire is to be iniof the block. tially shaped. The block is tapered slightly These loops are taken one by one as they from its base, where the wire is wrapped on are delivered from the machine of Figs. I to the outer end whence the loops are delivand II and the cut ends are by familiar ered. It is mounted for rotation on its 00- means not necessary here to describe, welded lumnar axis. together to form the elongate hoops or blanks As particularly shown in the drawings, A, such as illustrated in Fig. III. the block may be built up, of a central body, It is not necessary that these blanks be all to which the numeral 1 is immediately apof a size. As has already been intimated, plied, and opposite removable and replaceand as presently will more fully appear, in able terminal members 4. This construction the make-up of the reel the blanks are makes possible the alternate application of shaped to two particular reel units (Figs. terminal members of different size, and pro- IV and V), and the blanks for these several duction of reel units of difi'erent size. units may be of different size, and still a The tension device may be such as is symmetrical reel will be produced. And for found suitable. The wire which ordinarily particular conditions of service such varia- I use to form these reels is three sixteenths tion in size, resulting in relatively long and of an inch in diameter, and a suitable tenrelatively short reels, may be found desir- The shear is carried by the columnarable. For ordinary service in a steel wire mill, and particularly for the packaging of barbed wire for the market, I find a reel made from loops which are all of a size, to be entirely satisfactory.

And it is manifest that the cross-sectional shape of the columnar block 1, shown in this particular instance to be elliptical, may be of any particular shape desired, adapting the blank to its further use. It might manifestly be circular in cross-section, or square, or diamond-shaped,what one will. But the elongate shape shown afi'ords blanks suitable in shape for the production of the particular article here in contemplation.

Associated with the machine illustrated in Figs. I and II, will be machinery for bending the loops which are formed and cut in the machine of Figs. I and 11- (after their ends have been united) torthe particular shapes shown in Figs. IV and V. And additional machinery will ordinarily be provided for securing the assembled parts, as shown in Fig. VI. It will be perceived that the completed reel of Fig. VI is made up of four parts: two such as that illustrated in Fig. IV, two such as that illustrated in Fig. V. The ultimate step in making the reel, performed by the machine last alluded to, shapes the corners c of the reel part shown in Fig. V to the eyes similarly designated in Fig. VI.

In a co-pending application filed by me I describe and claim machinery for fabricating the loops which are. the product of the machine of this application.

I do not here dwell upon the particular features of the reel which give it utility; these are sufliciently considered in my patent mentioned above.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a wireloop forming machine the combination of a columnar forming-block borne upon the end of a rotary shaft and provided with an interior longitudinal perforation, a beam pivotally mounted upon the free end of said forming-block and arranged within the path of advance of loops delivered from the free end of the forming block, a beam-swinging rod extending through and movable longitudinally within the perforation in the forming block and protruding beyond the free end of the forming block and there engaging the said beam, and a pair of shear blades borne, one by said block, the other by said beam.

2. In a machine for forming reels out of wire, a machine unit consisting of a rotary columnar forming block compounded of a central body and opposite terminal members carried by and removable from and replaceable upon said central body, and a shear carried by said block and opening and closing in synchronism with block rotation.

3. The combination of drum 1, provided with an axial bore, beam '9 pivotedupon the end of the drum, rod 12 reciprocable within the bore with which the drum is provided, protruding from the head of the drum and there engaging said beam, shear blade 3 borne by said beam, and means for eifecting co-ordinated rotation of the drum upon its axis and oscillation of said rod.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

W. R. TnoXEL, E. N. SANDERS. 

